Over the years, the great clans of Xunzhen Prefecture had sent quite a few gifts to the Manor, filling half a storeroom with rare treasures.
Among them was a Life Fruit, which Jarvis said one clan had paid a great price to obtain from the Life Supreme Plane.
A Mother Tree of Life could produce only one fruit every hundred million years, and there were only thirty-six known Mother Trees of Life in the entire Life Supreme Plane. It was a supreme treasure whose supply fell short of demand.
The Life Fruit was tremendously helpful in comprehending the Life Law and could also strengthen the body and soul, perfectly addressing Loa's weakness in soul defense.
Loa accepted it and remembered the name of the clan that had sent it.
Aside from that, all the taxes Xunzhen Prefecture had handed over during the past century-thirty percent of the annual wealth of the dozens of cities under its jurisdiction-were piled in his Space Ring, an enormous sum.
These Inkstones and Azure Stones were simply sitting in his ring, and Loa had been pondering how to turn them into something more useful. It was common knowledge that Inkstones and Azure Stones served as universal currency in the Higher Planes because they contained a trace of special energy so faint it was almost imperceptible-Sovereign's Might diluted countless times over.
He spent eight full years on this task.
Under his powerful soul control, the Great Annihilation · Return to the Void sword intent was used to continually compress the faint Sovereign's Might contained in those mountains of Inkstones and Azure Stones.
It was an exceedingly tedious and mentally taxing process-extracting that trace of energy from every stone, gathering it together, compressing it, then gathering it again.
The entire process required absolute precision of the soul;